by Edith Wharton
No other American author managed to create a more immediate sense of time and place than did Edith Wharton in her dissection of turn-of-the-century New York in The Age of Innocence. The reader feels as if she has been transported to the world of Newland Archer, an intelligent young man who is all ready to settle into a proper if soulless life, married to the lovely May Welland. But when he falls passionately in love with May’s socially ostracized cousin, Ellen, Newland comes to understand the unforgiving brutality of New York society. Wharton, who had a firsthand knowledge of the upper classes, has constructed a blistering social commentary and a love story that is difficult to forget.
--Corrie
No other American author managed to create a more immediate sense of time and place than did Edith Wharton in her dissection of turn-of-the-century New York in The Age of Innocence. The reader feels as if she has been transported to the world of Newland Archer, an intelligent young man who is all ready to settle into a proper if soulless life, married to the lovely May Welland. But when he falls passionately in love with May’s socially ostracized cousin, Ellen, Newland comes to understand the unforgiving brutality of New York society. Wharton, who had a firsthand knowledge of the upper classes, has constructed a blistering social commentary and a love story that is difficult to forget.
--Corrie
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